pelota
noun/pəˈlɒtə/, /pəˈləʊtə/
/pəˈləʊtə/
- [uncountable] a game from Spain in which players hit a ball against a wall using a kind of basket attached to their handTopics Games and toysc2
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- [countable] the ball used in the game of pelota
Word OriginSpanish, literally ‘ball’, augmentative of pella, from Latin pila ‘ball’.
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